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The past is what motivates Colby Walker, the defining character in this suspenseful novel. While vacationing with his family, and his son’s best friend, Jess, Colby discovers that Jesse has been abused by his father. Revisiting the horrors ofhis own childhood abuse, Colby decides, against his wife’s better judgment, to ( more… )

Right from the start of this novel we are thrust into the hardscrabble, hyperventilating lives of Eddie & Sunny. Broke and living out of their car, and with a young son to care for, desperation is beginning to set in. Sunny is about to give birth and yet continues to ( more… )

It’s hard to believe that Konkoly could follow-up THE PERSEID COLLAPSE with a more riveting and action-packed novel, but this he has done in EVENT HORIZON. If a civil war is to happen again in this country, this may be the way it happens. After the collapse of American society ( more… )

Tim Queeney, better known for his clever Perry Helion thrillers, has penned a historical novel that frankly, surprised me on many different levels. It’s historical fiction at its finest in that we feel like we know young George Washington and are on the same journey with him. Queeney’s use of ( more… )

Six years have passed since The Fletcher’s survived the deadly flu pandemic that ravished the world and turned their suburban neighborhood into a war zone, pitting neighbor against neighbor. THE JAKARTA PANDEMIC was Konkoly’s breakout novel, winning praise (and controversy alike) for its realistic and heartbreaking depiction of one family ( more… )

A note of sadness runs through Katherine Silva’s new novel about two strangers embarking on road trip, and this is not a bad thing. Spencer, a divorced, lonely lawyer encounters Calleigh one day at his local Starbucks in Maine. Although the two don’t know each other, Calleigh asks him out ( more… )

An undercurrent of nervous energy, both kinetic and inert, fills the pages of Bill Roorbach’s inventive new novel, Life Among Giants. The literary vortex of a raging river, the language spins this story off in many whimsical eddies and makes it crackle with wit and ambition. At times this reader ( more… )

I have to admit that I’m not a big fan of this genre, having read very few military/Science Fiction novels. But I was really taken with the universe Brown and Faville have created in this entirely original and ambitious novel. When an author can create a vision and make it ( more… )

D’Orazio’s novel jacks you into the action from the start. The main character, Jeff Blaine, has lost his entire family to the zombie horde and must brutally fight for his life. The action here is riveting and disturbing, and has an immediate impact on the reader. Survival as a theme ( more… )

The Rewakening (The Living Dead Series: Book One) by Joseph Souza Review GenreAction, Horror Synopsis When a virus infects both humans and animals turning them in to flesheating zombies, Dar and her father, Thom, find themselves fighting for survival. Review Maine. Famous for giving us the legendary horror writer Stephen ( more… )